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First Chapter of Web Fiction

As mentioned earlier, Ancient Logic will start hosting a serial web fiction called "Agent Shield and Spaceman" starting today. The plan is to publish three chapters a week until the whole story is done - sometime around November. I hope you like it and feel free to give feedback through comments!

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